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About Us

The Human Tissue Procurement Service is a shared resource that collects, stores, and distributes human tissues to support the research of clinicians and scientists at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. We are located at Emory University Hospital with affiliated banking sites at Emory University Hospital Midtown and Grady Memorial Hospital. We maintain strong ties with multiple disease specific banks from established and developing programs, each with their own research coordinator, pathologist, and specialized protocols.

Instructions

When requesting our services...

Complete the PPMS Service Request Form then submit the following required documentation via fax to (404) 712-2581 or via email to cebutle@emory.edu.

Copy of IRB approved protocol

Copy of IRB approval letter (Your sample request must match what has been documented and approved by the IRB.

Once your service request has been received...

We will send you an email confirmation upon receipt of your service request.

Your application will be reviewed within two business weeks.

After your application is reviewed, we will send you another email notification indicating status and next steps.

Order of priority

In most instances, tissue is available on a first-come, first-served basis. However, when tissue supply is limited, it is distributed according to the following guidelines:

First priority: Extramurally funded, peer-reviewed studies in which the patient has been enrolled and has signed a protocol-specific informed consent

Second priority: All other extramurally funded-peer reviewed studies

Third priority: Intramurally funded studies

Fourth priority: Non-funded investigation

Fifth priority: Tissues requested for control purposes only

Disease Specific Banks

The central bank works in coordination with disease specific tissue banks from established and developing programs. The central bank is supported by the Winship Cancer Institute while the disease specific banks are supported by disease specific groups of investigators in the programs. The central bank assists the disease specific banks in the acquisition of other biospecimens obtained by a specialized protocol (e.g. blood, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, sputum, etc.).

Each disease specific bank has its own director, pathologist, and research coordinator, who interact on a regular basis with the central bank to coordinate tissue acquisition and disbursement.

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Acknowledgement Policy

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) requires that publications acknowledge the Winship Cancer Institute CCSG support, and they are tracking compliance. If a Winship Cancer Institute CCSG-supported Shared Resource provided data, designed the study, performed analyses, and/or provided results used in your publication, please include the following statement in the acknowledgment section of your publication(s):

Research reported in this publication was supported in part by the Cancer Tissue and Pathology Shared Resource of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and NIH/NCI under award number P30CA138292 The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.